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Peshawar: 3 would-be suicide bombers held on Ashura

Peshawar: 3 would-be suicide bombers held on Ashura

PESHAWAR: Police rounded up three alleged would-besuicidebombers and six other suspects from various parts of the city after a tip-off about the plot to disrupt the processions on the 10th of Muharram in the provincial capital. The capitalcitypolice got the tip that three would-besuicidebombers, Qari, Asad and Amjad had been tasked to carry out bombing during the Ashura processions. Securityagencies were further alerted moments before an Ashura procession after reports that one of the bombers had reached Namakmandi. Police later arrested the three would-besuicidebombers as well as six other suspects from different urban parts of the provincial capital, who were shifted to an unknown location. Security was at the highest alert in Peshawar, Hangu and DeraIsmailKhan during the last two days of Muharram.

A suicidebomber had struck in DeraIsmailKhan, killingseven people while curfew was clamped on Hangu after three cops were killed and as many abducted during a militants’ attack.

Peshawar remained quite peaceful as 4,000cops were deployed across the city to thwart any untoward incident. It was for the first time in three years that no suicidebombing took place in Peshawar during 10days of Muharram.

It is to be mentioned here that the first suicideattack occurred on seventh Muharram in 2007 in Dhaki Dalgaran wherein along with the then capitalcitypoliceofficer (CCPO), MalikMuhammadSaad, 16 other persons were killed.